This page is introductory to the "Folio Difference" notes I provide for the playscript of ''Hamlet'' on this website.

This page is introductory to the "Folio Difference" Notes I provide for the playscript of ''Hamlet'' on this website.

Some specific, and significant, differences exist in the First Folio version of ''Hamlet'' (1623) as compared to the Second Quarto version (1604-5.)  In providing a publication of the play, it's necessary to choose one or the other to follow, where a substantive difference exists between those publications.  So, this is all about how I made the necessary choices for ''Hamlet'' as I present it here.

Some specific, and significant, differences exist in the First Folio version of ''Hamlet'' (1623) as compared to the Second Quarto version (1604-5.)  In providing a publication of the play, it's necessary to choose one or the other to follow, where a substantive difference exists between those publications.  So, this is all about how I made the necessary choices for ''Hamlet'' as I present it here.

For example, on the page [[Scene 2 Folio Differences]] you will find the following item:

For example, on the page [[Scene 2 Folio Differences]] you will find the following item:

  038  ''Of these {delated} [dilated] articles...''

  038

  ''Of these {delated} [dilated] articles...''

   

   

  delated

  delated

A style note: In the discussions of the list items, I use ''italics'' for the expressions I think are most likely authorial, in either Q2 or F1.  I also occasionally use italics in the ordinary way, such as for stress.  I use "quotation marks" for expressions that I think are not authorial, in either Q2 or F1.  I also occasionally use quotation marks in the ordinary way.

A style note: In the discussions of the list items, I use ''italics'' for the expressions I think are most likely authorial, in either Q2 or F1.  I also occasionally use italics in the ordinary way, such as for stress.  I use "quotation marks" for expressions that I think are not authorial, in either Q2 or F1.  I also occasionally use quotation marks in the ordinary way.